Drew Dirksen plays Squid Game-inspired challenges where mistakes cause real pain.

As I mention often on this blog, I have a great interest in the universe—astrophysics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, all that stuff. With that, I’m no expert in any of it. I just enjoy reading and ...

Working with circuits and LED lights guides students to test ideas, troubleshoot problems, revise plans, notice patterns, and ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

Last week, I attended NVIDIA’s 2026 GTC event in San Jose, Calif. This year, the company expected over 30,000 attendees across the four days of the show. To host everyone, NVIDIA held events across ...

Neuromorphic computing (NMC) seeks to emulate architectural and algorithmic features of the brain to achieve lower-power, higher-capability microelectronics and computing platforms. Despite this ...

2025.08.28 🎉 We open-sourced RepoMaster — an AI agent that leverages GitHub repos to solve complex real-world tasks. 2025.08.26 🎉 We open-sourced GitTaskBench — a repo-level benchmark & tooling ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote kicked off like a rock concert yesterday at the SAP Arena. More than 15,000 attendees filled the arena in anticipation of CEO Jensen Huang’s annual ...

Our results show that the physics of active liquid crystals can exert a fundamental limit on the speed of motility within crowds of bacteria. Cells that exceed this critical threshold form ...

Electronic computers are extremely powerful at performing a high number of operations at very high speeds, sequentially. However, they struggle with combinatorial tasks that can be solved faster if ...

Intelligence presents evolutionary biology with one of its greatest challenges. It has long been thought that species with relatively large brains for their body size are more intelligent. However, ...